Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
AI did my homework
Pentagon turns to AI shortcut for congressionally mandated reporting
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine testify during a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense hearing to examine the 2027 budget for the Department of Defense in Washington, DC, on May 12, 2026. Credit: SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images
The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have been proudly describing a new shortcut—using generative AI tools to write such reports for Congress.
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michaelhighlighted AI-generated reports to Congress as a key example of how the Department of Defense—stylized as the Department of War under...
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